Delirious
Subtitle: art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980
By: Kelly Baum, with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan
Contributors: Bradnock, Lucy, author; Ryan, Tina Rivers, author; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781588396334
Subjects: Modern Art; Themes, motives; Exhibitions; Delirium in art
Description: Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects from rational means.
Notes: This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Think crazy: the art and history of delirium / Kelly Baum; title: Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the neo-avant-garde / Lucy Bradnock; title: Blown circuits: technology and irrationality in postwar art / Tine Rivers Ryan; title: Plates. Excess; title: Vertigo; title: Twisted; title: Nonsense.